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Meanings of iambus in English
Usage of iambus in English
1
The genitive in Saxon would be mannes, a trochee; in English, of man, an iambus.
2
Never take an iambus as a Christian name.
3
The daintiest alternation of iambus and trochee is joined to the serpent's cunning in swiftly tripping dactyls.
4
He could make Greek iambics, and doubted whether the bishop knew the difference between an iambus and a trochee.
5
The elegy and iambus contain the germ of the lyric style, though they do not themselves come under that head.
6
It has also been proposed to make the third foot a spondee or an iambus, and the remaining feet anapaests, thus:
7
An Iambus has the first syllable unaccented, and the last accented; as, Bĕtrāy,consíst
Frequent collocations
Iambus through the time